Sentences with phrase «high fertility countries»

After 2060, world population is projected to grow exclusively as a result of growth in current high fertility countries.

In the high fertility countries of Africa and Asia family sizes will continue to decline.

Not exact matches

Indeed, the countries with the highest levels of religious salience in the sample — Nigeria and Yemen — also have the highest fertility rates: respectively, 5.6 and 5.2 children per woman in 2012.

In Africa alone, the continent with the highest fertility rate and lowest use of modern contraceptives, 26 countries will double their population by 2050, according to the U.N. «Fundamentally if you're looking at World Population Day, it is at heart a women's rights issue,» said Roger - Mark DeSouza director of population, environmental security and resilience at the non-partisan policy Wilson Center, based in Washington, D.C. World Population Day is meant to draw attention to the challenges we face with a human population that is constantly growing.

Although poor countries have some of the world's highest fertility rates, growth in consumption exceeds growth in population in developing and developed countries.

«We have higher fertility because we're an immigrant - receiving country,» Glick says.

Particularly in Africa and the Middle East, high fertility rates are leading to profound local environmental pressures - water stress, land degradation, over-hunting and fishing, falling farm sizes, deforestation and other habitat destruction - thereby worsening the grave economic challenges these countries face.

A rapid voluntary reduction in fertility rates in the poor countries, brought about by more access to family planning, higher child survival and education for girls, could stabilize the population at around eight billion by 2050.

Countries where fertility rates are higher, such as France, Norway and Sweden, have more progressive governments, which provide generous maternity benefits, subsidized daycare and child tax deductions that make it easier for women to have both kids and jobs.

Most countries with higher fertility rates than Canada offer more than we do.

The findings in our paper help to ameliorate some of these concerns, and they point to the possibility that — among the most developed countries — further progress may actually result in somewhat higher fertility.

There's a need for the world as a whole to support families and governments in high - fertility countries improve access to contraception and education.

With fertility rate close to replacement level and continuously high immigration the US population grew by 9.7 percent over the last decade — uniquely high for a western country.

The second is that the demographic transition is irreversible such that once countries start down the path to lower fertility they can not reverse to higher fertility.

Current «high fertility» countries account currently for about 38 % of the 78 million persons that are added annually to the world population, despite composing only 18 % of the current population.

Developing countries — Fertility remains high in many developing countries.

The vast majority of the growth will be concentrated in countries that today continue to have very high rates of fertility (∼ 25 countries above 5, ∼ 45 above 4, and ∼ 65 above 3).

For example, the UN's population projections assume fertility declines in today's lowest - income countries that follow trajectories established by higher - income countries.

The total fertility rate remains high in many countries not because women want many children but because they are denied these technologies and information, and often even the right to have fewer children.

If those projected decreases in fertility rates are off by only 0.5 births per woman (an error of less than 10 % in many high - fertility countries), the date at which the world reaches 11 billion will occur five decades earlier and will raise the global total population by 2100 to nearly 17 billion and still rapidly growing [3].

The UN now says, «At the country level, much of the overall increase between 2013 and 2050 is projected to take place in high - fertility countries, mainly in Africa, as well as countries with large populations such as India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines and the United States of America.»

This number would likely be higher in most other European countries, where the contribution of childlessness to low fertility is much lower than in Germany (Billari and Kohler 2004; Sobotka 2004, 2008).

The transmission competition hypothesis was developed to better understand below - replacement fertility rates in high - income countries [9,10].